God Is Dead Quotes

• If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.40, St. Martin's Press

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• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

  Voltaire

  God, Atheist, Religion

  Epitres no. 96, "A l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs" (1770) See Ovid 2

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• It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.43, Princeton University Press

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• The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• Woman was God's second mistake.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Witty, Powerful, Mistake

  The Antichrist aphorism 48 (1888) (translation by Walter Kaufmann) See Hannah Cowley 1

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• Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter...
  Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Morning, Laughter, Believe

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• God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God, Men, Religion

  'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 3, sect. 108

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• God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Science, Knives

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.181, Vintage

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• God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.

  Charles Colson

  Atheist, Play, Atheism

  Charles W. Colson (2010). “God and Government: An Insider's View on the Boundaries between Faith and Politics”, p.198, Harper Collins

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• God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Years, Shadow

  The Gay Science bk. 3, sec. 108 (1882) (translation by Walter Kaufmann) See Nerval 2; Nietzsche 12

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• If God does not exist, everything is permitted.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ifs

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• God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Greatness, Blood

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.181, Vintage

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• I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Teach

  "Thus Spake Zarathustra". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1891.

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• My life and my whole eternity belongs to God.  All this stuff is temporary.  Money, fame, successtemporary.  Even life is temporary.  Jesusthat's eternal.

  Willie Robertson

  Stuff, Life Is, Fame

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• I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.43, Princeton University Press

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• God is dead and I am his replacement.

  Nora Roberts

  Replacements

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection”, p.729, Penguin

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• Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

  Harry Crews

  Men, Worship

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• In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

  Erich Fromm

  God, Time, Men

  The Sane Society (1955) ch. 9

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• The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this; He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.

  Karl Barth

  Atheist, Laughing, Heaven

  Karl Barth (1981). “Letters, 1961-1968”

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• If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Fists, Pleasure, Megalomania

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• God is dead, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!

  Trent Reznor

  Fear, Atheism, Care

  "Song: 'Heresy'". 1994.

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• Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.

  Gabriel Vahanian

  Luxury, World, Existentialism

  Gabriel Vahanian (2009). “The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era”, p.227, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• God is dead but my hair is perfect.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  Hair, Perfect

  "Has le philosophe been undone?" by Jason Burke, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2006.

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• It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to the declaration of a clearly unbalanced nineteenth century philosopher that God is dead! That's cheeky, of course - and one rarely comes away from reading Nietzsche without learning something new and significant. He's certainly FAR more unsettling for faith than any contemporary atheist I know of.

  George Pattison

  Atheist, Reading, Pride

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we’ve got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead.” “He’s not dead; just very tired.

  Libba Bray

  Tired, Courses

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